Lots of questions about purpose at the moment – I think it must be the moon or the alignment of the planets poking you or something. (Porpoise?) But it’s a great question: “What am I doing here?”, everyone asks it at some stage. Since I believe that what I’m doing right now IS my purpose, […]
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Reading a newspaper article this morning as I was sipping my coffee and feeding the toast/hummus/avocado machine that is Bubba (she’s a hipster babe, what can I do?), and I spluttered, a little. The article was about corporate mindfulness programmes to help workers deal with stress. It stated that corporate mindfulness was turning the workers
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Last time I talked about how “The Pause”. Gettit? The Pause has capitals for sure, because it’s a meaningful (and meaningless) moment or minutes where you just stop and do nothing. Where you collect yourself, where you break up the busy-ness and the haste and the “got to get things done” for a period of
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Ages ago I read of a group of Zen monks who would go through a very complicated set of chants and prayers every time they went through a doorway. “How bizarre”, I thought to myself, “Imagine if I did that every time I entered a room – it would take forever to get any where”
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Someone just asked me if meditation and mindfulness could help a bad back. She was saying that she thinks it’s caused by stress. And it could well do. I won’t make any promises but the thing is that your mind is at the core of everything you do. Stress and overwhelm and negativity sometimes means
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Standing on one foot used to be the trick I wanted to do so much. I was 2, I think, at the time … then it was learning to juggle. That was pretty cool when I finally managed it, then I found I could juggle AND stand on one foot. Then I did a yoga
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A big concern many people have with taking time out to do something like meditation is basically, “how will they cope without me?” Ever get the guilts even when you pop down to do the shopping? “I can’t leave them, because they NEED me” – do you know that? That’s a big one for many,
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Last email was all about how any relationship transforms when you give to it. When you give first, you create the very real possibility of enjoying a rich, alive, fun relationship. I said to give and give and give. And yet! Sometimes the most giving thing you can do is say “NO” … is not give.
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I think I’m getting pretty good at this relationship thing. I said that to Sumati the other day and a funny thing happened. She squarked and coffee came out her nose. Weird huh? I used to be terrible, but I wanted to get better because I was SO terrible, or at least, distinctly average. I
Amazing – Give this, and you get so much more Read More »
Yesterday I came in from my pedicure to find Sumati lying on the floor. “What are you doing down there?” I enquired. “Just hanging out”, she groaned, as Bubba crawled all over her, like a huge fly – undeniable, trying to poke wooden blocks in Sumati’s ears, as young ones are fond of doing. Sumati
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